Embedded Files
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Twenty-four-year-old Nicole "Nic" Monroe has felt stuck for the last seven years ever since her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace. She lives alone in a small apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, still working a dead-end job as a waitress that she only has because her boss is a family friend who feels sorry for her. Kasey's disappearance quickly became a cold case, despite the fact that it was eerily similar to the disappearance of Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way just two weeks before Kasey. When Jules's sister, Jenna Connor, comes to Nic with a clue connecting the two cases, the two sisters set out on mission for answers, but they soon learn the truth may be too painful to bear.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
On their forty-fifth birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. A few days later, Alix and Josie run into each other outside of Alix's children's school, and Josie tells her she has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. Alix reluctantly agrees, but the more Alix comes to know Josie and her past, the more she worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then, things take an even darker turn when Josie disappears.
FANTASY (BOOK 2)
After she conspires with the Resistance and kills the king, Paedyn Gray faces a perilous game of cat-and-mouse with Prince Kai, whom she once loved, as she uncovers revelations about her past that make every question everything she thought was true.
CLASSICS
An allegory exploring the dangers of life in a strictly totalitarian society governed by Big Brother and the Thought Police. As an employee at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith is constantly confronted with lies invented by the government to perpetuate its own power. Smith joins a rebel group called the Brotherhood dedicated to destroying the Party and freeing everyone under its control.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is shocked when his fourteen-year-old son Jacob is accused of murdering a fellow student. Even though damning evidence surfaces, Andy believes in Jacob's innocence; but his marriage crumbles as his wife doubts their son. As the murder trial progresses, Andy must choose between loyalty and justice.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
A Harvard symbologist analyzes a mysterious symbol seared to the chest of murdered physicist and discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood to carry out its vendetta against the Catholic Church.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined.
SCI-FI
Set in late 1990s England, humans are cloned and raised to donate their healthy organs to members of society afflicted with disease. The clones live at Hailsham, an idyllic, isolated school where clone-students are encouraged to feel special and are protected from the full truth about their eventual purpose in society. Thirty-one-year-old clone, Kathy H, has spent nearly twelve years as a "carer" to dozens of donors. When Kathy is reunited with two of her Hailsham friends, Tommy and Ruth, together they reminisce about their time at Hailsham and face the truth about their lives.
REALISTIC
Five-year-old Jack sees the room where he and Ma live as the world, but Ma sees it as the prison where she has been kept for seven years since she was nineteen. As Jack's curiosity and Ma's desperation grow, the Room cannot contain them much longer.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
SCI-FI
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
FANTASY
In the war-threatened land of Navarre, twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail is unprepared when her mother, General Sorrengail, commands her to abandon her training to be a scribe like her father and join Basgiath War College to become a dragon rider. Besides being small in stature, Violet has a condition that makes her joints unstable, a liability in a college where strength and competition are valued and the weak are executed. Many of the students are children of former rebels whose parents were killed by her mother, including her Fourth Wing leader, the handsome and brooding Xaden Riorson. With the odds stacked against her survival, Violet must use her cunning to succeed in competition and bond with a dragon. Along the way, Violet makes friends, nurtures an attraction to Xaden, and begins to suspect that Navarre leaders are hiding something.
REALISTIC
Mary Addison has spent the last six years of her life locked up in juvenile detention, convicted of killing a white baby who was left in the care of Mary's mother. Now fifteen, the African American teen finds herself pregnant and at risk of having her own child taken away. Desperate to keep her baby, Mary makes a startling confession--she did not kill the baby in her mother's care. But with a conviction hanging over her head, it might be hard to convince anyone she's telling the truth.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husbands dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son.
CLASSICS
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
While on her way to Utah to see her terminally ill mother, Darby Thorne, a poor college art student, gets stranded at a highway rest stop in the Colorado Rockies with four strangers. Trying to find a cell signal to make a desperate call, Darby goes out to her car in the blizzard wind and sees a child locked in an animal crate in the back of one of the strangers' vans. With no contact with anyone outside the shelter, Darby must now find a way to save this girl and also herself, not knowing who she can trust.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Ellingham Academy in Vermont is full of riddles, twisting pathways, and winding gardens. Shortly after it is opened by Albert Ellingham in 1936, Albert's wife and daughter are kidnapped. The only clue is a riddle describing various methods of murder and signed, "Truly, Devious." Years later, true-crime buff Stevie Bell enters Ellingham Academy with a goal to solve the cold case. Then Truly Devious makes a surprising return, and another death rocks Ellingham Academy.
FANTASY
On the island of Fennbirn, royal triplet girls are born every generation. Each has their own special magical ability, and each has an equal claim to the throne. On the evening of their 16th birthday, the girls battle for the crown. And there's more at stake than the royal title—winning is literally a matter of life or death. The last queen alive will reign.
FANTASY
Louise is a witch scratching out a life for herself on the streets of Cesarine after fleeing from her coven. Reid is a witch hunter anointed by the church to kill all witches he finds. When a twist of fate causes the two to get legally married, Lou and Reid's lives will never be the same. Both soon find that the enemies they once feared are not who they seem, and as they both fight their growing feelings, shocking truths are revealed that puts the war into new perspective.
FANTASY
Blue Sargent's mother is a clairvoyant who can speak to the dead on St. Mark's Eve. On this night, Blue and her mother go to the church graveyard, and Blue stands by as the dead-invisible to Blue-stroll past. But this year is different. This time Blue sees someone, a boy from the nearby Aglionby Academy. The problem is that this boy isn't invisible, which means only one thing-either the boy is someone Blue has killed, or he is her true love.
FANTASY
Scarlett Dragna has spent her life dreaming of seeing Caraval, a magical performance that involves the live action of the audience. But when she and her sister Tella are personally invited by the master of ceremonies, she knows their cruel father will never allow them to leave their isolated island home to attend. The two sisters defy their father and sneak away to the event with a sailor named Julian. But when Tella is kidnapped and used as bait for the event's hunt, Julian and Scarlett find themselves in a race against time to find Tella first before she's gone forever.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill--or else everyone dies.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When a series of brutal murders involving bodies drained of all blood occur throughout the Midwest, the authorities are mystified. But when the Carlson family is murdered in their Minnesota farmhouse, the police find a lead in the form of Marie Catherine Hale who is found at the scene covered in blood. Michael Jenson, son of the local sheriff, dreams of becoming a journalist and sees the story as his big break. Marie decides Michael is the only one she will tell her story to, and he jumps at the chance. But as Marie reveals her tale, Michael begins wonder if he can trust anything she says.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
On the outside everything looks promising: former California teenager Marigold is clean for the first time in months, she's getting a fresh start with her new blended family in a Midwest Michigan community, and their rent-free home has been newly renovated. Dig beneath the surface, however, and all isn't so well: Marigold still thinks she needs marijuana to cope with her anxiety and a bedbug phobia, the new home they're living in appears haunted, and her annoying ten-year-old step-sister Piper has a new imaginary friend who wants Marigold gone from the home. Marigold soon learns of the home's sordid past, the decimation of the black neighborhood it's located in, and the true intentions of the horror housed in the home.
SCI-FI
Warcross--an online video game phenomenon--is a way of life for millions of players around the globe. For impoverished teenage hacker Emika Chen, working as a bounty hunter to track down players who place illegal bets on the game, it's her only means of survival. However, when she tries to hack the opening game of the International Warcross Championships just to make some quick cash, she accidentally glitches herself into the game. Becoming an overnight sensation, Emika is sure she will be arrested, but then she gets a call from the game's creator who offers her a job as an undercover security agent. Whisked off to Tokyo, Emika quickly uncovers a sinister plot that could bring down the whole Warcross empire.
FANTASY
Celaena Sardothien, 18, is forced to work the salt mines of Endovier as punishment for her crimes as the top assassin in Adarlan. When Crown Prince Dorian summons her to act as his champion in a royal competition, Celaena must prove she's the best assassin in order to gain her freedom. Before facing her opponents -- a cast of ruthless killers and thieves -- Celaena must train with young captain Chaol, who she initially wants to kill, and soon catches the eye of the prince.
FANTASY
When 15-year-old orphan Sage is purchased by one of the king's regents, he is instantly thrown into a den of political intrigue that will have repercussions throughout the kingdom. He soon learns the entire royal family is dead, and so, to prevent civil war, the regent is purchasing orphans who may be able to pass for the king's younger son, lost at sea years ago. Before long, Sage finds himself in a desperate competition among other boys his age to earn the right to impersonate the prince and become the ruler of a kingdom.
SUPERNATURAL
Every year, seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers with her grandmother, helping out at her spiritual bookstore in La Cachette, Louisiana, the psychic capital of the world. This year marks a sad return, as her best friend Elora has disappeared and no one seems to know what happened to her. Grey and Elora are part of a group known as Summer Children, ten children from the area who were born over the course of one summer--two of whom were murdered when they were four years old. As Grey delves into what happened on the night Elora disappeared, she begins having vivid images of Elora's experiences, and unearths the town's disturbing secrets.
MURDER/SUSPENSE
Alice is sent back to the night of her sister's murder and has until midnight to figure out who the killer is or risk losing her sister forever.
FANTASY
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters disappeared for a month off a Scottish city street only to return with no memory of what happened or where they were--worse, their appearances began to change, blue eyes not black, dark hair turned white, and no one able to resist their disturbingly intoxicating beauty and danger. Now seventeen, Iris has just about graduated from high school when one of her sisters goes missing again, leaving behind strange clues that lead Iris and her other sister on a dark journey into the supernatural.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer.
DYSTOPIAN
After a flu pandemic that spreads by flies ravages the earth, a small group of survivors embark on journeys for safe havens only to come face-to-face with mysterious and supernatural elements. Twelve-year-old Kit is searching for a rumored safe zone and meets up with eighteen-year-old Nico who is searching for a portal her parents told her about. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Deliverer watches over them and hops through time and space hoping to change events.
SUPERNATURAL
Contacted out of the blue by someone claiming to have information about her mother's death, eighteen-year-old Sophia Novak travels to Bitter Rock, an island off the coast of Alaska, to work at an avian research center and find out what happened to her mother who purportedly died there. She's joined by the woman who contacted her, seventeen-year-old Abby Ryder, and one of the researcher's sons, Liam Kapoor, and together they learn of other disappearances and confront strange phenomenon amidst a pervasive fog.
DYSTOPIAN
In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.
FANTASY
After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his.
FANTASY
Princess Lia is the First Daughter of a kingdom where she is expected to have the gift of sight. She does not. Her royal parents have perpetuated the sham that she does, long enough to secure an advantageous marriage to a prince Lia has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia and her friend Pauline flee to a coastal city where she takes on the identity of a barmaid. Two handsome men show up, Rafe and Kaden, to whom Lia feels instant attraction. What she doesn't know is that one is the prince she has jilted and the other is an assassin sent to kill her.
REALISTIC
Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
SUPERNATURAL
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into a bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
SCI-FI
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate.
FANTASY
In Prague, Karou, an art student, is struggling with her identity (she grows bright blue hair and her family consists of inhuman creatures) when she realizes that black handprints are appearing on doorways around the world and a war between devils and angels is about to break out. Karou may soon learn who she really is after she encounters the beautiful, haunted Akiva.
SUPERNATURAL (BOOK 3)
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
FANTASY
Feyre has survived Amarantha's attack and gotten back to the Spring court, now with all of the powers of the High Fae yet still human. Her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, still hangs over her head, forcing her to navigate a web of politics, power, and great evil which only she can stop.
Shadow and Bone
Struggling to survive in their war-torn homeland of Ravka, orphan Alina Starkov and her best friend Mal work as army soldiers. Traveling across the Fold on a mission with the Darkling, the king's right-hand man, Alina and Mal face a terrifying attack. To save Mal's life, Alina unleashes a powerful ability she never knew she had. As a Sun Summoner, Alina has the power to destroy evil forces of the Fold once and for all. The Darkling takes her away and begins to train her as a Grisha, an elite group of people with magical powers. Separated from Mal, Alina hones her talents as a Summoner but quickly realizes she can't trust anyone -- not even herself.
SCI-FI
Living in New Beijing with her adoptive mother and two stepsisters, Cinder is a teenage cyborg with a penchant for mechanics. Quickly, her “normal” (if you can call it that) existence is turned upside down; first she meets and falls for the handsome Prince Kai, and then learns that her sister Peony's life is being threatened by a deadly plague. An additional wrench is thrown in her plans when the evil Lunar Queen Levana arrives on Earth and declares her intention to marry Prince Kai. Now, Cinder must race to save her sister and capture the heart of her prince at the same time.
FANTASY
In a world where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, an evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. The future of the empire rests on the shoulders of a troublemaker and his young apprentice. Together, can they fill the world with color once more?
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Eleven years ago, six kindergarten kids went missing, and now, just when those left behind think they have moved on, five of the six return. Scarlett discovers a mother she doesn't recognize, and truly doesn't know who she is supposed to be. She somewhat remembers Lucas, and Lucas remembers Scarlett, but none of the five can remember where they were or what happened. The sixth was Max, and his sister, Avery is determined to get to the bottom of Scarlett and Lucas' memory-loss story.
REALISTIC
Sixteen-year-old Miles Halter's adolescence has been one long nonevent - no challenge, no girls, no mischief, and no real friends. Seeking something new, Miles leaves Florida for a boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama. His roommate, Chip, and Chip's best friend, Alaska Young, teach Miles to drink, smoke, and plot elaborate pranks.
FANTASY (BOOK 2)
Jude, seventeen and mortal, is now the power behind the Faerie throne, with Cardan as her puppet. As the defacto ruler, court intrigues plague her, and Cardan is more interested in the celebrity than actually taking initiative to lead. Then, a plot against Jude's life comes from someone close to her, and Jude must find the traitor before she loses everything she loves. All the while, she contemplates her increasingly confusing feelings for Cardan.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Eighteen-year-old Red, her brother, and six friends take an old RV on a spring break trip from Philadelphia to the southern coast. On the way, their camper succumbs to a flat tire and they realize that their tire was shot. Trapped in a remote location in South Carolina without cell service, the six young adults try to stay alive through the night, wondering who wants to kill them and why, and if someone in their group is hiding a secret.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Remy Tsai's boyfriend, Jack, is shot by her best friend, Elise, and while police investigate, Remy probes her memories for the truth of their friendship.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Nurse Samantha Newsom's parents and baby sister all died in a house fire when she was a teen and their bodies were never recovered. Although it was assumed they were murdered, the case was never solved. Now an adult, Samantha is forced to return to her hometown and clean out the house of her deceased uncle. There she meets investigator Travis Meacham who was assigned to the cold case. He says he has a witness that saw a man carrying Sam's baby sister out of the fire. As Sam and Travis try to solve the crime and find Sam's sister, Sam finds herself in danger.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. It's been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie's case was unearthed.
ROMANCE
Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. After high school graduation, Pip isn't interested in solving another murder case, but when a friend goes missing, Pip feels compelled to investigate. Discussing her progress on her podcast, however, may put her in danger. After this, haunted by the murder cases she solved and by the victims, survivors, and increased intention to her podcast, it all gets to be too much--then it starts to seem like someone is watching her.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a superb ability to read people simply by looking at them, is recruited by the FBI to solve a cold case, she discovers she is one of a number of exceptional teens like herself who have been asked to help in various ways. As she gets to know the others in her program, however, she begins to realize that nothing is what it seems, especially when a killer strikes and pushes the teens to their investigative limits.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When Claudia comes back from summer vacation, her best friend Monday is gone. They've been friends since childhood, and now no one can tell her what happened. In fact, nobody even seems concerned about Monday's disappearance. Claudia is determined to find out where her friend is and what happened to her.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find... This smart and chilling thriller takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
FANTASY
Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Jules Larsen takes an unusual apartment-sitting job at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's highest-profile and most mysterious buildings. Jules soon discovers that the building holds many secrets when a fellow house sitter disappears.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
After their sister Julia goes missing, twenty years pass between Claire and Lydia in which the sisters have nothing to do with one another. Claire becomes a trophy wife to a rich Atlanta man and Lydia ends up a single mother dating an ex-con. When Claire's husband is murdered and it appears connected, however implausibly, to Julia's disappearance, the estranged sisters come together to discover an astonishing truth about their family.
FANTASY
Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
HISTORICAL FICTION
Marie Mitchell, an FBI agent whose career has become stagnated, is given an opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention.
REALISTIC
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When Nick and Allie die in a car accident, their souls continue to exist in a place known as Everlost, which is halfway between life and death. Determined to go home, the two set out from the accident site in upstate New York for New Jersey. Though warned of an evil monster called the McGill who roams the place, the youngsters find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost children, and Nick finally feels that he has found home. However, their journey comes to an abrupt stop when they are captured by the McGill and suffer by its hands.
FANTASY
Essun lived quietly in a comm with her husband and children until the truth of her abilities was revealed - she and her children can control Earth's forces. Upon learning the truth, her husband kills their son, and their daughter disappears. Essun escapes, intent on finding her daughter.
DYSTOPIAN (BOOK 3)
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
ROMANCE
Poor Maddy has one of the rarest conditions in the world, most easily summed up as being allergic to the outside. For seventeen years she has never left her house, seeing only her mother and her nurse--until one day out of a moving truck next door jumps Olly, the boy with whom she quickly falls in love and decides to literally risk her life for by going out of her house.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
When two men show up during a snowstorm at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, life changes forever for her daughter, Nell, who survives the attack. San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, driven to the point of psychological meltdown trying to track down the killers and solve their series of murders, finally has the witness she needs in Nell--however, for Nell, being a witness will put her in an even more dangerous place than the farmhouse where she saw her family killed.
FANTASY
Mare Barrow, of lowly red blood, is given a job in the royal palace to serve those with silver blood and supernatural powers. One day in front of the king, Mare discovers she has her own unique power. The king tries to hide this fact by calling Mare a lost Silver princess and betrothing her to one of his sons. In spite of this, Mare risks everything to help the Scarlet Guard, a rebellion against the Silver elite, and puts herself in grave danger.
CLASSICS
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Cadence Sinclaire Eastman, along with her cousins Mirren and Johnny, and her aunt's longtime boyfriend's nephew Gat Patil, are the Liars. They are the third generation growing up in the privileged family of Harris Sinclaire, the grandfather from whom all the wealth comes, including Beechwood island off the coast of Cape Cod. It is Cadence's 17th summer on the isle, and she has just returned after two years of recovering from an accident which left her with chronic migraines and memory loss. Which is just as well, because her family refuses to talk about her accident, and the secret that Cadence slowly remembers throughout the course of “summer 17” on Beechwood is horrific.
ACTION/ADVENTURE
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
HISTORICAL FICTION
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
The "Marsh Girl" Kya Clark, sensitive, intelligent, lives on her own in the marsh, making friends with gulls and learning lessons in the sand and water. However, she is a human nonetheless, and one day she feels the call to be touched and loved. Two young men from the town of Barkley Cove one day become intrigued by her wild beauty, and Kya lets them befriend her--then, the handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, and the locals suspect Kya.
REALISTIC
Baker Sage Singer is struggling to cope with her mother's death when she meets elderly Josef Weber in her grief support group. They become friends and he confides in her his darkest secret, and asks her for a favor that will have moral and legal consequences.
HISTORICAL FICTION
On October 11, 1943, operative "Verity" and her best friend Maggie crash land in Nazi Germany. Maggie is lost in the wreckage, but Verity is captured by the Gestapo. Germany's secret police give her a choice of two options-tell them her mission, or die. Verity vows to hold out as long as she can about her true mission, weaving her story with truths and lies that are hard to tell apart.
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
Five students are sent to after-school detention at Bayview High: Bronwyn, the brain; Addy, the beauty; Nate, the criminal; Cooper, the athlete; and Simon, the outcast. You might think this sounds like a familiar '80s movie about a club and breakfast—but in this case, Simon doesn't make it out alive. Simon, the creator of Bayview High's infamous gossip app, had promised to release juicy details about all four of his popular co-detention attendees the next day, which means all four are suspects in his murder—unless, of course, a sixth figure is using them as patsies …
SCI-FI
Fifteen-year-old Tally's postapocalyptic society gives extreme makeovers to teens on their sixteenth birthdays. When a top-secret agency threatens to leave Tally ugly forever unless she spies on runaway teens, she agrees to infiltrate the Smoke, a colony of refugees from the "tyranny of physical perfection." At first baffled and revolted by the rebels' choices, Tally eventually bonds with one of their leaders and begins to question the "validity of institutionalized mutilation - especially as it becomes clear that the government's surgeons may be doing more than cosmetic nipping and tucking."
FANTASY
Ten years after the blood fever decimated the human population, the survivors of the illness are left with strange markings. Some people think the survivors also have hidden, supernatural powers, and have taken to calling them the Young Elites--but whether they are a force for good or not remains to be seen.
DYSTOPIAN
In an effort to cure all discord throughout the country, the America of the future has outlawed the ability to feel love, believing this emotion to be the cause of the nation's troubles. Lena, nearing the age of 18, is about to receive the neurological procedure that will remove her capacity to feel passionately about anything, but everything changes when she meets a boy her age named Alex. As her feelings for Alex start to reshape her very being, Lena begins to question her community and the totalitarian government that runs the nation.
SCI-FI
In Em's future, the discovery of time travel put the world in a downward spiral culminating in its current totalitarian state. Left with no other option, Em and her boyfriend Finn go back in time to assassinate the person who built the first time machine--and who also happens to be someone she cares about. Complicating matters is the fact that Em and Finn's past selves still exist in this time, and their own experiences are revealed in alternating chapters. Bit by bit, Em and Finn's future and past selves rush toward their ultimate destiny, as they try to prevent a future that never should have happened.
SCI-FI
On a planet ruled by violence and vengeance, in a galaxy where fate favors everyone with a “currentgift,” Cyra is the sister of a brutal tyrant, a brother who uses her gift of pain and power to rule the Shotet people. Meanwhile, Akos is the son of a farmer, gifted with an endlessly generous spirit and limitless loyalty. When Akos is thrust into Cyra's violent world, he and Cyra will either help each other survive—or destroy each other.
DYSTOPIAN
Thirty-five girls are part of the Selection, when the royalty takes suitors for their son, Prince Maxon. These girls will be treated to balls, gowns, jewels--the life of luxury--in order to win the Prince's favor. For America Singer, however, the Selection offers only anxiety. She loves Aspen, even though he is a caste below her. Then, America meets Prince Maxon, and all her plans are ruined.
SCI-FI
Noemi Vidal is a 17-year-old soldier trained to defend her planet, Genesis, at any cost. Abel is a humanoid robot that was abandoned in space 30 years ago. When Noemi finds Abel on an unused research vessel, the two form an unlikely bond. Soon Noemi begins to wonder if Abel's intelligence has evolved beyond his programing, and her foolproof plan to use him as a means of protecting her planet becomes more complicated than she ever imagined. “Noemi and Abel share the narrative, and together they weave a tale that examines the ethics of war and tackles questions of consciousness, love, and free will.
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